Nov 09, 2010 - Sale 2229

Sale 2229 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(BIBLE IN HEBREW AND SPANISH.) Torah Nevi'im Ketuvim be-Shnei Amudim. Biblia en dos colunas, Hebrayco y Español. [2], 1-178; [2], [179]-332, [10]; [2], 1-159, [1]; [2], 161-350 pages, with 5 preliminary leaves (introduction, verses, and tables) bound after Nevi'im Rishonim. Folio, 391x251 mm, later 19th-century 1/2 cloth, joints cracked and chipped, cover edges rubbed; contents browned. Amsterdam: Joseph, Jacob and Abraham, sons of Solomon Proops, 1762

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First bilingual edition in Hebrew and Spanish, financed and promoted by Abraham Mendes de Castro of Curaçao. Sale proceeds were to benefit the Jewish communities of Jerusalem and Hebron. Darlow & Moule 5156; Vinograd, Amsterdam 1819.